Blackland TX · The towns and places
Rural Shade
Navarro County, Texas
Hugh and Washington Ingram settled here in 1850, and Hugh's son James built the first steam gristmill in this part of the county about 1870. By 1885 there were four cotton gins and three gristmills for seventy-five people; after the Second World War the school went to Kerens and the stores closed.
Source: Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas.